Dazed and Confused Soda Surprises

It’s not just kids who get first week of school jitters – moms do too. At least that’s what I’m going to blame this week’s bout of insomnia on. It hasn’t been pretty. I’ve been staying up until 4am every night only to wake up 3 or 4 hours later, pretending I’m equipped to face the day. After a week of this, I am a zombie. I basically have been doing the bare minimum to get myself ready in the morning, then I actually get all 3 kids (2 preschoolers and a toddler) fully ready and then I sleep walk through the day.

Thursday and Friday I’m not sure how we all made it out the door.

Thankfully we all did and Thursday I was even able to meet up with a friend for a snack (you know, what most people call “let’s get coffee” but I don’t drink coffee). I wound up ordering this…

…only to realize later that I hadn’t eaten breakfast or lunch and just mindlessly ordered this as my first meal of the day. (I will say, the vanilla cupcake was delicious. Icing was just sweet enough and the cake was moist and tasty. The pumpkin cookie was just too cute to pass up, but truthfully didn’t taste as good as it looked.)

I know, I know…who cares?

Well, my new zombie state led me to make a very important soda discovery. You see, I am a diehard Diet Coke drinker – like take a blood sample from me and you will see that Diet Coke runs through my veins. For me nothing else compares. Panera only sells Pepsi. Truth be told, I tend to select eateries that sell Coke products over those that sell Pepsi products, but Panera was close by and I stumbled into it with my good friend. As I mindlessly took my first sip of the Diet Pepsi, my mind lit up. Could this be? The perfectly chilled, sparkling gush of goodness that I just sipped was Diet Pepsi? I was expecting this soda experience to be just the hydrating of my body – but no – this was good! Each sip that followed was too! I never thought I’d be able to say it – but I found a fountain that makes a very satisfying Pepsi product!

The next day I had another soda surprise…well maybe more like a soda “what the…?” I was picking the kids up from a class…still sleep walking…searching for a Diet Coke. In the distance I saw a vending machine. “Oh thank God!” I thought. The kids and I raced over only to find this:

What on Earth type of vending machine selection is this?? Confused, we all just walked away. I was too tired to use any energy trying to decide which of these 3 soda choices would do. I’ll go back another time and try one out and report back…but really??

So there you have it. Insomnia brought me 2 new soda surprises…and truthfully all my extra time awake did help me get this blog off the ground. So CHEERS to insomnia!